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- saleem, on 06/01/2008, -6/+212I know I might get buried for mentioning its name, but Vista fixes that problem and it's just "Documents", "Pictures", "Downloads", "Videos", etc
- mykbibby, on 06/01/2008, -10/+142Here's an idea: call it Apple Online, or in short, AOL.
Oh wait... - MurphyMac, on 06/01/2008, -48/+174Microsoft started a terrible trend with My Documents. MY this, MY that. It makes all your folder names look the same and is hugely inefficient visually. Further- on an MS machine I always rename MS Word to Word, MS Excel to Excel, etc. Clearly they give these things zero thought. Why make it hard for users for no reason?
It would be disappointing to see Apple follow MS down the Me-My path. - neodude237, on 06/01/2008, -2/+120Me Documents
- eliot2000, on 06/01/2008, -6/+100.mac isn't a dud because it's called .mac. It's a dud because it offers very little that you can not find for free elsewhere and charges a minimum of $100 a year for it. Nobody pays for email, and the name isn't going to change that.
- whatthefu, on 06/01/2008, -2/+59They seem pretty satisfied with their "i" prefixes.
- Nitrodist88, on 06/02/2008, -3/+49Well, time to upgrade then.
- Berkana, on 06/01/2008, -1/+47mammals, you mean?
That was part of their inside joke that they were more evolved than Microsoft's "dinosaurs"; even the MacOS X kernel is called Darwin. - DeviantDragon, on 06/01/2008, -5/+49Apple tries to succeed where Windows ME failed.
- Nohj, on 06/02/2008, -1/+43Arrrr!
- Berkana, on 06/01/2008, -5/+47Apple can't make the smallest move without the news hitting digg. Do they even need to advertise anymore? Money can't even buy publicity like this.
- SuburbianMike, on 06/02/2008, -3/+44Wow, I really never considered the ramifications of my picture folder being called "My Pictures" instead of "Pictures"
Now that I know this I can stop the apocalypses from destroying us all by simply renaming MY PICTURE FOLDER to "Pictures".
Thank you. - qpid, on 06/01/2008, -6/+44First off I fail to see how a domain name can have a sexual preference....
Second, Me.com is short, simple and to the point. Everyone knows how to spell, say it and will likely know what it means. - inactive, on 06/02/2008, -3/+41Me Documents is the UK language variant.
- energyblue, on 06/01/2008, -1/+33I don't care what they call it. As long as they improve it. Some of the tools, example 'homepage', are as old as .Mac itself. dotMac could be so much better with a price drop and a BIG improvement/expansion to services (I'm not talking iPhoto slideshows).
- GothAlice, on 06/02/2008, -1/+33There's a bloody good reason why Microsoft has prefixed all of their products with their name. They -lost- the lawsuit that said you can't trademark the name Windows because it is too generic. Thus, Word is not a valid product name either; and Office isn't valid either… now they're called Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, etc. Windows is Microsoft Windows, etc.
Can't believe I'm saying this, but don't bitch at Microsoft over this. Re-name them if you wish and get on with your life. - feliks2, on 06/02/2008, -3/+32iDocumets?!?!
Please pleaase please no - Raian, on 06/02/2008, -1/+28It's better to be a pirate....
Ahoy... open me documents matey... then over to me music, there is more treasure in me desktop than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island!
Shiver me timbers! - sockpuppets, on 06/01/2008, -8/+31Unfortunately Microsoft already owns you.
- AmICoolNow, on 06/02/2008, -4/+27What's better, putting "my" before everything, or "i"?
- roomforpanic, on 06/02/2008, -2/+25There always after me lucky documents!
/leprechaun - Sil369, on 06/02/2008, -0/+22No, Magic Elephants.
- bluntphallus, on 06/02/2008, -2/+23I hide my warez in /home/matt/Desktop/do/what/you/want/cos/a/pirate/is/free. CD'ing to it is a bitch though.
- ttocsxela, on 06/01/2008, -4/+24Me, .Mac, Apple is not good at naming their internet service. Let us see if their marketing army can turn that around (probably will if steve gets on them about it).
I've always believed .mac was a great idea, but has always come up short in several areas. If you look at the .mac user homepage and follow the links to the other services you can tell it is in a dire need of an upgrade. - joel8x, on 06/02/2008, -3/+22Me = Mac Everywhere.
- HolyChimp, on 06/02/2008, -0/+17Reminded me of this from years ago...
http://www.jardmail.co.uk/attachments/windaz2000.g ... - Palaceguard, on 06/02/2008, -5/+21and people who are not even interested in Apple's news, tend to always comment in Apple's sections
- eldridgea, on 06/02/2008, -2/+17Right now I pay $120 a year for a Dreamhost account ($20 more than .Mac)
I get WebDav (iDisk)
500 GB of space and an extra 2GB every week I maintain the account.
6TB of Bandwidth a month and an extra 40GB every week.
I get web hosting, FTP, SFTP, SSH, as many accounts as I want (iWeb space).
I get email with IMAP and webmail, as many accounts as I want (.Mac mail).
I can also install Wordpress or a dozen other things in one click.
Come on Apple . . . for an extra $20 you just got owned, you can do better. - knightboat, on 06/02/2008, -1/+16Clearly, sockpuppets was making a joke. (Apple owns me, Microsoft owns you, get it?) What the hell is wrong with you?
- wonderchemist, on 06/01/2008, -8/+21Apple also owns mammles.org
- sg7791, on 06/02/2008, -0/+13Millennium Edition
- MavRevMatt, on 06/02/2008, -7/+20So has Linux.. Oh wait, in Linux you can do whatever.
- illwil, on 06/01/2008, -7/+19Apple gets me
- estvir, on 06/02/2008, -12/+243. Has a dumb mass following who will defend everything glorious Steve Jobs does.
- AndrewWiggin, on 06/02/2008, -1/+13You're right, but if they were trying to rebrand, it would help to have a fresh start rather than using the same name again.
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -10/+21later this year apple will be introducing the new MEpod and the MEphone
- vault, on 06/01/2008, -1/+11Mobile Me does sound pretty stupid, actually.
And I'll wait to see what Apple does with it, but anything@me.com just sounds very childlike and generic. - superkendall, on 06/02/2008, -3/+13Actually even with the shortcomings a fair number of people subscibe to .Mac today, because when paired with stuff like iPhoto or iWeb or iMovie, it's one of the easiest ways to get content to appear on the web.
They have some pretty good parts to tit, like BackToMyMac and the preference/bookmark/keychain sync service between multiple macs. But they do need to offer more and tie it all together better - it's always seemed crazy to me that the iPhone did not support .Mac in any way, at least the syncing stuff, and now it looks like it's going to. - BrendanSheehan, on 06/01/2008, -0/+9I don't care if they improve it as long as they make the damn thing free, or at least 50% cheaper.
- zwaldowski, on 06/02/2008, -0/+9They're still pulling it, unless my late-2007 edition phone is lying to me.
- pensel, on 06/02/2008, -2/+11Since no one has commented the clearly obvious (for the immediate at least) truth yet:
This revamped service is going to integrate deeply with iPhone; why would the many, many Windows users want an email suffix referring to a type of computer they don't use?
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Also I'm sure marketing (read: steve jobs) is disturbed by its similarity to '.NET.'
(He joked about this at...I can't remember which keynote) - Fratz, on 06/02/2008, -0/+8In the old days, I always used to list my email address as bite@me.com to register for sites that didn't send verification email. I wonder who at Apple will get all my spam...
- zzz@tkz, on 06/02/2008, -0/+8A name I call myself.
- MavRevMatt, on 06/02/2008, -1/+9Apple has a long list of odd domain names such as Mammals.com, carbon.com, velocity-engine.com, eefoff.com, among others at http://mavrev.com/index/columns/matt/domain_discov ... . Then again other companies have equally weird domain names especially Google. RetardNation.com for example. A take on DiggNation?
- ciano, on 06/02/2008, -3/+11If you're willing to learn how.
- BrendanSheehan, on 06/01/2008, -3/+11http://www.iKids.com
http://www.iSchool.com - vault, on 06/01/2008, -0/+8Don't forget eWorld which no one used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eworld
- fLUx1337, on 06/02/2008, -1/+8I am not a fan of shared hosting at all - but Dreamhost?! Wow that just sucks... (and not just for the clear overselling, go store 500GB of files and use 6TB of transfer for $10 and see what happens. ;)
- acidandspatter, on 06/02/2008, -0/+7Sounds like something Ali-G would say.
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